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Originally Posted by boomboom
OK my eyes started to blurry reading here so I didn't read all the posts, SO has anyone said that this could be part of a tool. the wire object with the base attached to it could be a tiny screwdriver blade or maybe a prick of sort, and the bolt looking object is the retainer tip that screws onto a handle. Those marks dont seam to be angled like a thread would be, but it could be knurled rings on the tip for gripping. With that intake off, those runners are wide open when the EGR work was performed. It could of fallen out of Techs shirt pocket while leaning over engine. I dont know what it would be used for on THIS job but its just a thought. I've built thousands of gasser over the 25 yrs in a machine shop I worked at so every so often I was confronted with foreign object ID. If those are indeed threads it looks more like a set screw because of the absense of a head on the object. GOOD LUCK BUDDY ! my brother in laws doing EGR / OIL cooler right now and I have him look at your pics tomarrow and have him keep an I out for anything that might look like that. I would be over there but he's 500 miles away.
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Hey Boomboom, thanks for that detailed analysis. I've done the same thing a million times ... leaning over a gasser and oops... down the rabbit hole! I didn't have a ruler with me, or I would have shown scale on the photos, but one guy said he thought it was probably a 1/4" thread diameter. I hadn't thought about a tool, or a pick but I always found that the tools I used the most were the ones I made or modified from the Snap On truck. (so it might not look like an ordinary tool)
I don't think the wire part is thick enough to be the shaft of a screwdriver. And yeah, please do let your brother in law know to look for anything that comes loose from the inside of the intake. The only one I own is down at the dealer!
I'll betcha this is going to surprise everyone, if I can ever get Ford to do some actual DIAGNOSIS!
